What is Hillary thinking? What are the professional political operatives around Hillary thinking?
She may have been able to dispatch Obama. But, she and her crack team ASSUMED (ass of u and me) the race would be over on February 5. Accordingly, she spent almost all of her money on the races up to and including super Tuesday and never organized for any race thereafter. Sometime during Obama's 12 primary run after super Tuesday, the top brass of Hillary's campaign must have had a meeting to discuss that --- - He's built up so much of a lead that she CANNOT catch him in pledged delegates, popular vote, or states won. Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania can't change anything. What to do? First choice - change the rules (Florida and Michigan). Second choice (or maybe co-first choice), destroy Obama. On this point, Obama has provided a helping hand (Rev. Wright, bittercling, no short, cogent, coherent answers to either, and a very poor debate performance).
Hillary's crack campaign KNOWS it will not go into the convention leading in (what everyone thought was) the only relevant metric- pledged delegates. How can Hillary claim she's ready from day one when she cannot run a primary campaign without losing to the newest of newcomers? Will the political operatives that are creating and carrying out this brilliant strategy put this campaign on their resumes to prove their great skill?
Amazingly, the Democrats are putting on a demonstration of how even when the sun, the moon, and the stars are aligned they still can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The issue is not that Obama should not be challenged; of course he should. Maybe he's not ready. But, effectively, Hillary now can win only by having the super delegates overturn the primary results or by having the DNC change the rules after the fact. Quite simply, she blew it and she has no one to blame for that but herself! I'll be supporting Hillary's opponent when she runs for reelection to the Senate in 4 years.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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